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Aeon Flux kicked butt all the way to the very end. Griping about the characters talking is lame because there is an upper limit of creativity without using dialogue. Ultimately, 12 half hour episodes were produced.

Dude are yous kidding? Aeon Flux is the awesomest show how could anybody NOT like it?

Never did. I think the creators pulled it off quite well considering they weren't expecting follow-ups after both first or especially second series of shorts. With all the MTV drawbacks regarding the amount of blood and violence that had to be cut out in the 22 min. episodes, they still are as raw and powerful as the shorts, but in a new dimension, more philosophical, where the dialogue needs to be just a facade for things happening in the background, spiced up with some ironic lines as well. This gives the characters depth, a feature which somehow lacked in the shorts, we especially discover Trevor's personality. Great show

I don't know if it jumped the shark, because I could never figure out what the hell was going on.

I hate all this anime japanimation crap.it's stylistically ugly,and pretentious.come on folks,vague plots and superflous action dont make this kind of junk art.
It angers me to know that this japcrap has such a following while a real cartoonist like John K. has such a hard time breaking into the big time.
Aeon Flux is crap,a waste of time and film,why not give the same opportunity to someone who might actually make something worthwile?

When Paramount Pictures made a movie out of it. Everybody hated it, even show creator Peter Chung admitted to disliking it. Hopefully, a sequel will never happen.

This show never jumped the shark, quite simply because it was nowhere near the ocean and had never so much as seen a shark. This show was so different that it really couldn't jump the shark. The later episodes may not have been as remarkable as the earlier, but to jump the shark requires more than a show just being bad...it requires water skis...

It was awesome when it was on Liquid Television. When It became its own show and they put an actual story to it, it sucked ass.

Didn't jump, ever. Even with the change to dialogue, it always maintained its weird, amoral, creepy, dystopic feel, and never compromised. One could never, EVER call "Aeon Flux" a show that could ever get a wide audience, because it just hits on too many strange levels for the average viewer. But Peter Chung never backed down with this thing, and from start to end there was always this 'bad dream' feel that both compelled and repelled...like some sort of horrible accident you can't take your eyes off of. Another example in the fossilized strata of earlier MTV that shows that, yes, there once was intelligent life at that network.

It never jumped, but then again, the entire time, I think it was actually displaced on both sides of the shark! It was attractive in how surreal it was, and it was repulsive in that sometimes you couldn't figure out what was going on, or what the obsession was with licking armpits. Odd. I'm surprised it made it to TV, but I liked it.

When it was brought back and the characters actually talked.

I don't remember exactly when it was, and apparently I'm the only one whose noticed, but it was when they all of a sudden change the master artist...or what ever it's called. the show went from being really nice and futurist to just plain sloppy. think real hard and see if you can picture that point in your mind. I noticed that many poster's have conflicting opinions on how Aeon looked; hot, or grotesque. I think that this artistically change may have something to do with how people remember her. from what I can recollect, she started out kinda babeish (but in a supermodel kind of way);tall thin(too thin) with nice breast (not too big or too small). then she sort of kinda metamorphosized into some heroin whore looking chick. Please if there is anyone out there who remembers how all of a sudden the cartoon was just drawn differently, write something. I can't be the only one. actually if you think about it, this is quite a common occurrence in cartoons. It happened to the batman cartoon also.

Never Jumped!! Sure, the show may have lost a thing or two when it went from being a non-dialog short on "Liquid Television" to getting its own 1/2 hour, but it still ruled. After watching examples of sci-fi animation that pre-dated the predominance of anime ("Heavy Metal" and the animated short in the "Star Wars Holiday Special"), it's easy to see how fresh AF was as a whole. The weird pacing, off-beat dialog and moral ambiguity were especially unique for MTV fair. More than anything else, AF is a relic from an era when MTV was more concerned about the creative process than celebrity worship. Instead of groundbreaking entertainment, it's all about dumb reality shows - tossing non-celebrities together to see if they can re-make themselves into clones of Britney; getting a guided tour of Beyonce's "crib"; or going for a ride in "50 Cent's" new chromed and rimmed SUV. Aeon Flux never jumped, but MTV has long since taken the plunge

I think most of the posters here seem to be missing the point. Aeon Flux was never meant to be understood. Its S&M surreal fantasy with a psuedo political spin and lots of body fetishism. Some of that dialogue was great, even if it didn't make any sense. And anime was always grown up (let me add to the list of the other poster who has actually watched 'proper' anime, to give the rest of you a suitable 'reading list'). Samurai X, Neon Genisis Evangelion, Castle of Cagliostro, Totoro, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away, Metropolis, Escaflowne, Ninja Scroll, Perfect Blue (cell-shaded Hitchcock), Gunsmith Cats, Dragon Half, Cowboy Beebop, Blood: The Last Vampire.

Contrary to what most people seem to think, the first season of Aeon Flux wasn't the one where she died every episode. During what I remember to be Liquid Television's first season, the show would feature the cartoon serially with an ongoing storyline (Trevor was creating a bug that would spread a disease, then market a cure for it). Nobody talked in the first season, but you could actually tell what the hell was going on. The most memorable scene in my mind is of Aeon shooting a room full of guards until all are dead or dying, lying in a ludicrous pool of blood. One of the dying guards takes her helmet off, and spots someone, presumably her lover, dying of the virus, not of a bullet wound. Trevor sees this, and angrily crushes one of his virus bugs in his hands. Pretty easy to follow. There was never supposed to be a second season, if I understand correctly.